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theyaintwantit
Crap, it is fun just to sit by yourself at the games
I had my wisdom teeth removed the day before we played GW in Feb 2019. I sat by myself in the SE corner with a gauze in my mouth. Great experience!
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theyaintwantit said:
Or you can answer Wes McElroy's trivia question on his radio show and win 2 free tickets like yours truly did yesterday.
Anybody know who was the first VCU player to appear in an NBA game?
Nope, but I bet you're gonna tell us
One of them spends his time at Tech. His daughter and my daughter are freshman there and run in the same circles. Pretty sure he is the one that had the tickets.
Sons of Shaka?
Two of the guys are the owner(s) of ChemDry. I've seen them individually this year, but just with their spouses/kids and not dressed up.
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Jessie Dark I believe? 1974? I only know that from looking up before to see who all from VCU has played in the NBA
Yes! I used to religiously read our preseason media guides and I remember Jesse Dark played for the Knicks in 74-75 which was when Gerald was at VCU so I knew it wasn't him.
My dad says they called him Jessie Bodine (sp?).
Old timers - does that ring a bell?
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It all started with VCU WBB honestly under Beth Cunningham honestly. My freshman year... I was one of the few people in the stands that was not directly connected to the team (family members) or the gameday operations. Hardly any students came to the WBB games until athletics made it a requirement for the "6th man rewards"... and they'd all show up & leave after swiping in. But generally it was Dr. Hunt, his wife and a handful of others... plus family members & such..... and that was it.
To the point that when I was not cheering on the team, stomping on steps or yelling at the refs for stupid calls... that it was so quiet you could hear a pin drop. And the players on the bench could literally hear everything I was saying whether I was yelling or not.
And it was then that the fan to player/coach connection started for me.
And you wanna know something kind of ironic, one of the players & one of the assistant coaches who were part of that whole connection.... after bouncing around a few other schools as Asst. Coaches.... are now Assistant coaches together across town at ur. The main coaching staff for ur WBB all came from Bucknell a few years ago after ur fired their previous coach.... and I remember after hearing that the now ur WBB coach got hired over there.... I texted the one who used to play for us and asked if the 2 of them were coming with him.... and they said at the time while it was unofficial.... that yes they were..... so part of me was Happy cause 2 of the people responsible for beginning my connections with a lot of the womens team over the years were coming back to RVA. I even went over to ur one day during the off season just to go see them.
And of course I told them "You know I'm gonna have to "Boo" you for 40 mins at least twice a year now right?"... they both laughed but completely understood.
But that whole fan-coach/player connection started with those Beth Cunningham teams. Also where the tradition started where before every game I'd stand over by where the team comes running out & stick my hand out giving the players a high five & wishing them good luck as they're running out of the tunnel... to the point that the cheerleaders & other fans (usually little kids) started doing it too at the WBB games. Obviously can't do it right now because of Covid and all that, but I'm sure once things are over and "back to normal" that I'll start doing it again.
One of these days when I can get back to Richmond for a game I'll join you in high fiving the team. I've always wondered why we didn't have more fans at the women's games. They work just as hard as the guys and really play an exciting brand of Basketball (shameless advertising for the women ended now).
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Its obvious why they don't get the support.... because people find it "boring" or other reasons. Also because it's not a revenue sport Athletics doesn't advertise it much. I know the guy who runs the VCU WBB twitter account & he does the best he can getting stuff out there via Twitter/FB/IG... etc. But that's all he can control.
I've said it before.... we could make a Final 4 or National Champ. run (I know its a far chance at that... but for the sake of the argument lets say we do).... our attendance prob still won't go up much, if at all.
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There is nothing worse in life than having something and then not being able to afford it.
Really? I can think of a lot worse things. Dealing with some now actually.
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Liked in agreement and solidarity. I hope it works out as well as it can.
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This x 1000. I naturally have nervous energy at all times. I have a stand up desk at work and I love it. If it weren't for SENSITIVE people behind me at The Stu, I'd stand the whole game.
Why are people that pay for their season tickets with donations and seat fees labeled sensitive because they wish to be able to sit in their seats and see the game? I'm not saying it's not ok to occasionally stand up for a great play, etc. But to stand up for the entire game seems insensitive to me. Suppose the people behind you I described are old and have difficulty standing up/down? Maybe we should have certain sections designated "stand up seats". That way everyone is happy and at least gets a choice of wether they want stand/sit to watch the game and is aware of the proclivities of those in front of them.
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I stand up pretty often but for truly tense games I usually go stand by the railing along the concourse. Works for me, plus I get a different view.
You make an extremely valid point, I probably should have clarified what I said.
When I sit with my dad at games in Section 5 (behind opponents bench) I am sitting the majority of the time. He has a bad back, hip, foot, etc so he only stands when we go on a run, make a big shot, etc. I get irritated when the team CLEARLY needs a crowd boost and I (or anyone else) stands up and tries to pump up the section that they are in and the people behind them just sit there and look at you like you are committing a crime.
I do think that the two sections in each end zone should have a note regarding standing. Those seats are a combination of students, general admission, and people who bought tickets elsewhere, but found an open spot in that area.
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If someone wants to sit the entire game and complain about how others go about enjoying the game, stay home and watch it on TV or the internet. Attending a live sporting event is not the same as going to the movies or the symphony if that's one's style.…it is a physical and emotional experience meant for high degree of interaction, it is certainly not a time to sit on one's hands and whisper good tidings.
No issues if someone wants to attend and doesn't want to stand and cheer, but geez that's an individual's choice. As long as others are respectful in word and deeds—they should be able support the team with whatever level of energy they so desire.
That said, part of being respectful may be looking out for others who may have physical limitations or other hinderances—but beyond that, it's a sporting event not study hall.
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I think both sides make valid points. Fans should be engaged and part of the gameday experience, including standing, yelling and supporting your team. On the flip side, if you and your friend are the only ones constantly standing in your section throughout the game, then you are not being considerate of others attending the game and are being a total jacka$$. And I have witnessed this in person, including at VCU games. It's one thing to cheer your team on. It's another to be standing for extended periods of time during the game for no apparent reason other than to be standing and being a jacka$$. When that happens, then its open season for the rest of the fans around them to complain. Stand and cheer for your team. Just don't be THAT jacka$$!!!
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Fully acknowledge there is no reason to be a jackalope and it is civil to show some respect to fellow fans…..still, it's a live sporting event, if one is offended by some jostling, standing, colorful language and the possibility of getting something spilled on them—stay home and watch TV. Everyone will be happier by that decision.
95% of fans attending sporting events know proper fan etiquette. Most fans know when to stand and when to sit. All fans know when to cheer. Not sure why this is even a point of discussion. The examples you use are part of that 5%. Most fans are respectful of each other. If you think 95% of the fans need to cave to that 5% by staying at home and watching the game on TV, then there is a bigger problem. What you are referencing are exceptions, not the norm. At the end of the day, it comes down to respect. Everyone is paying good money to see a sporting event in person and everyone has rights within reason. We don't need to turn all sporting events into Philadelphia Eagles home football games. There's a reason Lincoln Financial has a jail and magistrate in the bowels of the stadium during Eagles football games.
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Podcast Season 3, Episode 3: Radically Candid Conversations — Kim Scott & Trier Bryant Talk Bias, Prejudice & Bullying In the Workplace
On this episode of the Radical Candor podcast, we're bringing back our Radically Candid Conversations series. Amy talks to Kim Scott about her new book Just Work: Get Sh*t Done, Fast & Fair, and her new company Just Work that she's launching with Trier Bryant. Kim and Trier break down how to recognize, address and eliminate bias, prejudice and bullying in the workplace to create more just working environments. Buy the book, learn about the company and listen to the podcast to learn why just work environments aren't just the right thing to do, they're also good for business.
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On this episode of the Radical Candor podcast, we're talking about combatting injustice at work so everyone can feel safe to just work. There are things each of us can do, today, to create the kind of workplace in which we can all do the best work of our lives, and enjoy working together.
Leaders can take active measures to prevent injustice. Observers can be upstanders, not silent bystanders. When someone is harmed by injustice, they can choose how to respond. When someone causes harm, they can address what they did in a way that makes them part of the solution rather than part of the problem.
Kim Scott's new book, Just Work: Get Sh*t Done, Fast & Fair, and her new company Just Work, seek to educate people that it's everyone's job to fix workplace injustice. We all have a role to play. When we can parse the problem of workplace injustice it's easier to begin to identify effective responses to each new challenge. Amy Sandler interviews Kim Scott and Trier Bryant about how to create more just workplaces.
Trier Bryant, CEO and co-founder of Just Work, and Kim Scott author of Just Work: Get Sh*t Done, Fast & Fair the book and co-founder of the company.
Learn to recognize the difference between bias, prejudice, and bullying and to respond differently to each. Bias is "not meaning it," prejudice is "meaning it," and bullying is "being mean."
Confront bias with an "I" statement, an invitation to the person to see things the way you do. For example, "I don't think you meant that the way it sounded."
Confront prejudice with an "it" statement that clearly shows the person where the line between their right to believe whatever they want and your right not to allow them to impose their beliefs on you is. An "it" statement can appeal to the law: "it is illegal to," or to an HR policy, "it is a violation to" or to common human decency, "it is cruel to…" Confront bullying with a "you" statement.
Confront bullying with a "you" statement that shows a person there will be negative consequences for their behavior. The consequence doesn't have to be super intense — sometimes just asking a person a question that it's hard for them to answer is enough. For example, "What's going on for you here?" Or "You can't talk to me that way."
The "I" statement invites the other person in, the "it" statement shows them where the fence is, and the "you" statement pushes them away.
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If you are a Muslim woman hoping to flee a forced marriage or potential honor killing in Europe, think twice about hailing a cab during your escape. The latest from Norway:
Some people in the taxi business report young immigrant women and jeopardize their safety.
"Our experience is that many of the girls are afraid to take a taxi. They say that the family works in the taxi business. If the women are seen in the city, it's reported back to the family," Gunnar Svensson of the Oslo police told NRK.
Svensson, who serves on the government unit combating forced marriages, warns that "in cases where people are exposed to threats, our advice is not to take a taxi. It's simply a security risk."
The cab-driving honor Stasi is not limited to Norway. The Telegraph noted in 2008 that "informal networks of taxi drivers" are "involved in assisting and covering up 'honor violence' in Britain." Two months ago, the Guardian profiled Zakir, a UK cabbie who "for around £5,000 … would track down women and girls who had run away from home to escape a forced marriage. A bounty hunter, Zakir's mission was to bring them back to their families":
It wasn't about the money. It was about izzat [honor]. I saw the effect it had on them when their daughter ran away. The worry and the shame from the community talking about them. I was part of the "taxi driver network," so we shared information about who we picked up and where they got dropped off.
Denmark witnessed the worst possible result of this phenomenon in 2005, when taxi drivers helped a fellow Pakistani locate his sister. He then shot her to death and injured her husband, a day after they had been married without her family's approval.
From the shunning of alcohol, dogs, and homosexuals to recruitment for jihad, taxis are on the front lines of the advancing Islamist agenda in the West. Little surprise: an industry with more Muslims is an industry with more Islamists.
Oslo police should be commended for proactively illuminating the threat of informer networks before, rather than after, they facilitate a high-profile tragedy there.
An American group that recently placed ads featuring victims of honor killings on taxicabs could not have chosen a better venue for its message.
"Families will do anything in the name of honor," says Zakir. Western authorities must show similar resolve in thwarting the aims of such families and their community enablers.
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Devaraj (born 20 September 1953) is an Indian actor and theatre actor who works in Indian film industry. He has largely featured in Kannada films performing various roles as a lead character, supporting character and villainous character. He has also featured in Telugu and Tamil films.

Having worked in over 200 feature films, Devaraj is popularly referred to as a "Dynamic Hero" in the Kannada film industry. Prior to acting in films, Devaraj performed in stage plays under the guidance of Shankar Nag and B. Jayashree. Devaraj has won several awards and accolades including the Karnataka State Film Award for Best Actor for his portrayal as the protagonist in the film Veerappan in 1991.

Early life

Devaraj was born on 20 September 1953 to Ramachandrappa and Krishnamma in Lingarajpuram, a locality in Bangalore, in the erstwhile Mysore State (now Karnataka). His father worked in ITC Factory, Welfare department. Devaraj lost his father when he was 3 months old as he was suffering from malaria. In 1976 due to his family's financial problems Devaraj decided to work in a HMT Watch factory, Case & Dial Section, where he worked for 9 years, and it was suggested he should act in dramas by his senior colleague at HMT, Govindaraju. Firstly Devaraj joined R.Nagesh's theatre group, later he joined B. Jayashree's theatre group SPANDANA and later on with Shankar Nag's SANKET. His film debut was as a supporting actor in 'Trishula'. He continued to appear as a supporting actor, then acted in leading roles.

Career
Devaraj auditioned for Trishula with Avinash, both of whom were part of a same theatre troupe. Both got through the auditions and the film was his debut as an actor. However, the film did not release. His first released film was 27 Mavalli Circle in 1986. After the success of 27 Mavalli Circle Devaraj acted in many more films mainly in supporting roles. His notable performances include:  His First Hero Leading Role In Hatyakanda In 1989. Upnext  Aaganthuka, Navabharatha, Indrajith among others.

After the year 2000, Devaraj switched over to character roles and debuted in Tamil and Telugu film industries. He worked in highly acclaimed films such as  Malaikottai and Villu in Tamil and Yagnam, Sri in Telugu.

Personal life
In 1986, Devaraj married actress Chandralekha, whom he had met on the sets of his film Sikku. Following this, they appeared together in the 1992 film Kendada Male. After their marriage, Chandralekha quit acting. They have two sons, Prajwal and Pranam. Both sons are active in the Kannada film industry, with Prajwal having established himself as a lead actor.

Filmography

Kannada

Telugu

Tamil
Pillaikkaga (1988)
Malaikottai  (2007)
Villu (2009)
NGK (2019)

Awards
 Nandi Award for Best Villain - Erra Mandaram

 9th SIIMA Award for Best Supporting Actor for Yajamana

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Living people
1953 births
20th-century Indian male actors
Male actors from Bangalore
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Bush 'rebuffed Obama on car industry bailout' (Video)
November 11, 2008 in Barack Obama, Bush, democrats, Economy, Environment, Obama, Republican, white house | Tags: Automakers, car industry, Cerberus, Cerberus Capital Management, Chrysler LLC, Colombia, Colombia free trade deal, Colombian armed forces, democrats, economy back on track, emergency aid, Financial Crisis, Ford, Ford Motor, free trade deal, G.M., General Motors, Gibbs, mortgage foreclosures, New York Times, paramilitary squads, right-wing, right-wing paramilitary squads, Robert Gibbs, trade unionists | 1 comment
Mr Obama's spokesman, Robert Gibbs, said yesterday that the plight of automakers was one of a number of issues discussed in a two-hour meeting with Mr Bush to discuss the transfer of power at a time of war and financial crisis. Other issues included housing, mortgage foreclosures, and, more generally, "the need to get the economy back on track".
The parlous state of the American car industry was highlighted last Friday when General Motors – the biggest US car manufacturer – reported a $2.5 billion net loss for the third quarter, bringing its total losses to nearly $57 billion since the beginning of 2005.
Ford Motor Company's $129 million quarterly loss, meanwhile, brought to nearly $24.5 billion the deficit it has run up since plunging into the red in 2006. The privately-held Chrysler LLC is also thought to be fast running out of cash – one reason, analysts believe, why its parent, Cerberus Capital Management, was so eager to sell Chrysler to General Motors.
The New York Times, citing unnamed people familiar with the discussion, said that Mr Obama went into his post-election meeting with Mr Bush primed to urge him to support emergency aid for the car industry.
The Bush Administration is reluctant to give carmakers access to the bailout fund, even though the Democrats say it could legally do so.
Linking the issue with the Colombia free trade deal could delay any move until after Mr Obama's inauguration on January 20. US union leaders oppose the agreement because of numerous murders of trade unionists in Colombia at the hands of right-wing paramilitary squads closely linked to the Colombian armed forces.
Obama Asks Bush to Provide Help for Automakers
November 11, 2008 in Barack Obama, Bush, climate change, democrats, Environment, Obama, Republican, white house | Tags: Al Gore, Auto Industry, automobile industry, Big Three, Bush, Center for Automotive Research, Chrysler, collapse, Colombia, Congressional Democrats, democrats, emergency aid, Environment, environmental protection, Environmentalists, ET, Ford, former Vice President Al Gore, fuel-efficiency, G.M., General Motors, Gore, Martin Feldstein, new technology, Nobel Peace Prize, Obama, plug-in hybrids, president, President Bush, stimulus package, stimulus spending, struggling, struggling auto industry, white house | Leave a comment
This failing economy and troubled auto industry is the perfect storm for Obama and the Democrats, if the auto industry was strong — how could you get it to change direction? The writing was on the wall some eight years ago that the oil age was coming to an end – that to continue to pursue it would lead us into difficulty. And it was one of the hallmarks of Al Gore's presidential campaign. Now we have seen the results of continuing down the same path. But with this disaster or more stripping of the sector – there is opportunity; the free market idea is to allow the auto industry to fail, or it can be bailed out under conservative socialism, or we can forget about the old titles and give the auto-industry the money it needs but with the strings attached – that it retools for the future car. Why can't we have a hybrid/electric or an electric SUZ? And this merchandise can be exported – the market should be thrilled.
Bush is arguing – he'll give Obama this – if in return Obama cedes with the Republican position on trade with Columbia. And it is a weak argument – because what Obama is saying – we will be happy to trade with you – but you are going to have to pull your act together when it comes to workers rights. This carrot and stick approach may do more to change conditions in Columbia – than all the diplomacy in the world. Doubtful if this is a chip that can be traded because it has a long term goal.
WASHINGTON — The struggling auto industry was thrust into the middle of a political standoff between the White House and Democrats on Monday as President-elect Barack Obama urged President Bush in a meeting at the White House to support immediate emergency aid.
Mr. Bush indicated at the meeting that he might support some aid and a broader economic stimulus package if Mr. Obama and Congressional Democrats dropped their opposition to a free-trade agreement with Colombia, a measure for which Mr. Bush has long fought, people familiar with the discussion said.
The Bush administration, which has presided over a major intervention in the financial industry, has balked at allowing the automakers to tap into the $700 billion bailout fund, despite warnings last week that General Motors might not survive the year.
Mr. Obama and Congressional Democratic leaders say the bailout law authorizes the administration to extend assistance.
Mr. Obama went into his post-election meeting with Mr. Bush on Monday primed to urge him to support emergency aid to the auto industry, advisers to Mr. Obama said. But Democrats also indicate that neither Mr. Obama nor Congressional leaders are inclined to concede the Colombia pact to Mr. Bush, and may decide to wait until Mr. Obama assumes power on Jan. 20. […]
As the auto industry reels, rarely has an issue so quickly illustrated the differences from one White House occupant to the next. How Mr. Obama responds to the industry's dire straits will indicate how much government intervention in the private sector he is willing to tolerate. It will also offer hints of how he will approach his job under pressure, testing the limits of his conciliation toward the opposition party and his willingness to stand up to the interest groups in his own. [….]
Obama has called on the Bush administration to accelerate $25 billion in federal loans provided by a recent law specifically to help automakers retool. Late in his campaign, Mr. Obama proposed doubling that to $50 billion. But industry supporters say the automakers, squeezed both by the unavailability of credit and depressed sales, need unrestricted cash now, simply to meet payroll and other expenses.
On Friday, Mr. Obama said he would instruct his economic team, once he chooses it, to devise a long-range plan for helping the auto industry recover in a way that is part of an energy and environmental policy to reduce reliance on foreign oil and address climate change.
Democrats close to both Mr. Obama's transition team and to Congressional leaders seemed willing to call Mr. Bush's bluff, calculating that he would not want to gamble that G.M. — an iconic, century-old American corporation with business tentacles in every state — would fail on his watch and add to the negative notes of his legacy. Also, economists as conservative as Martin Feldstein, an adviser to a long line of Republican presidents and candidates, have called more broadly for stimulus spending of up to $300 billion.
The major automakers — G.M., Ford and Chrysler — are each using up their cash at unsustainable rates. The Center for Automotive Research, which is based in Michigan and supported by the industry, released on Election Day an economic analysis of the impact of one or all of them failing. If the Big Three were to collapse, it said, that would cost at least three million jobs, counting autoworkers, suppliers and other businesses dependent on the companies, down to the hot-dog vendors and bartenders next door to their plants.
Organized labor is not the only interest group with influence in the Democratic Party that is weighing in as Mr. Obama plans his transition. Environmentalists are adamant that any aid be conditioned on the auto industry's dropping of its opposition to higher fuel-efficiency standards and investing more in new technology. That puts them at odds with unions, who oppose any strings, leaving it to Mr. Obama to mediate.
Both as a candidate and now as president-elect, Mr. Obama has been in contact with former Vice President Al Gore, who last year won the Nobel Peace Prize for his work on climate change. In a column published in Sunday's New York Times, Mr. Gore wrote that "we should help America's automobile industry (not only the Big Three but the innovative new start-up companies as well) to convert quickly to plug-in hybrids that can run on the renewable electricity that will be available."


How do we identify MA/G&T children?
At Plaistow Primary we identify children as more able/ gifted and talented when children either perform above national expectations for their age or demonstrate particular strengths or talents. We define More Able/Gifted as: children who are achieving or have the potential to achieve in advance of their peers in one or more academic subjects. We define talented pupils as: those children who have enhanced creative, musical, sporting or artistic ability.
What is the More Able/Gifted and Talented register?
The school keeps a register all children who have been identified as able and/or talented. Children can be nominated for inclusion on the register by staff, specialist teachers or parents. The register is updated yearly and parents are notified by the school if their child has been added to the register. Please note that the register is a working document and that children can move onto as well as off it, according to their current learning needs therefore your child will not necessarily remain on it indefinitely.
How do we provide for our gifted and talented children?
We identify More Able/Gifted and Talented children and provision is made for these children in the individual teacher's daily planning; work is differentiated to make sure that all children, of whatever ability, are encouraged to do as well as they can.
In addition to extension and challenge during lessons, our most able pupils are involved with specialist projects. We keep a record of activities provided for our most able children to ensure that they regularly receive the additional challenge they need. We also liaise with local primary and secondary schools for partnership work to further support pupils.
How are Parents/Carers kept informed?
We aim to keep parents fully updated on a child's progress and achievements through informal meetings, by letter or during Parent Evening. If you would like to discuss your child's progress at any time throughout the year then an appointment can be made with the class teacher at both your convenience.
If you think your child has a particular gift or talent please complete a nomination form (could this be a link so the form magically appears?) and hand it to Mrs Boutalbi.
We encourage Parents and Carers to contribute to the school's understanding of their child. Keeping the school informed of any awards, competition or out of school interests that they have. Encourage your child's interests by enrolling them in a club outside of school which will further nurture and encourage your child's talent or gift. Above all by showing interest in your child's learning, sharing enthusiasm for study, encouraging homework visits to libraries, museums and out of school courses will encourage your child and help them reach their full potential.
We have some exciting news to share; we have become a part of the Children's University™.
The Children's University™ is an international charity that provides children with access to exciting and innovative learning experiences outside of the normal school day.
Children taking part have been given a learning passport which means they are able to access high quality learning activities which have been accredited by The Children's University™, for example attend a workshop at the Natural History Museum. Each time a child completes an accredited learning activity, they get a stamp/signature in their passport.


Chairman Gene Abbott of DelDOT welcomed everyone, reviewed the agenda and asked if there were any revisions to the meeting minutes from the August 16 or September 8 meetings. The availability of the committee notebook and its content was reviewed. Everyone was reminded to check the web site for current information.
To prepare the committee for the charrette exercise at the October 7 committee meeting.
Jim Lisa of DEDO asked the committee members to complete a committee data form which had been distributed as part of tonight's meeting materials. This information on the form will allow the study team to communicate more fully and frequently with each committee member.
Richard Bartholomew of WRT reviewed the overall project schedule indicating that the current work program was on-track as planned. Richard reviewed the upcoming committee charrette workshop on October 7 from 4:30 to 8:00 p.m. and the public open house meeting on October 13 at the Astra Zeneca cafeteria from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m.
These parcels total 339 acres.
These uses could total 431 acres, which is 92 acres more than the 339 available. The goal is to achieve a balance of future uses and develop facilities that give each land use advocacy group something of value. Bill described a of the site, which indicated a preliminary layout of the major land use areas.
Richard stated that these roadway options can be combined for a total of 60 potential combinations. However, due to incompatibilities between the groups of options, 37 could be eliminated leaving 23 for consideration at this time. Richard stressed that all these options are concepts and have not been subjected to traffic or engineering analysis to determine performance, feasibility or constructability.
Q. Is the greenway to go over or under US 202 and is it definitely going to cross in some grade-separated fashion?
A. Yes, the greenway will cross US 202 in a grade separated condition; however, it is not yet determined if it will be over or under US 202.
Comment: To enlarge the Porter reservoir, water storage can be achieved under the golf course or adjacent to it through the use of a water tower.
Comment: Rockland Road is the correct name, not Rock Hill Road.
Q. What will the jug handle look like that carries US 202 northbound to relocated Route 141?
A. For these concepts, it is presented as a multi-lane, at-grade jug handle which would cross US 202 through a signalized intersection. A grade-separation at US 202 has not been ruled out but it may not be feasible due to close proximity to the I-95 interchange ramps.
Q. Are copies of these schematics available?
A. Yes, we will have paper copies tonight and all information is on the web site.
Q. Can stormwater management be considered wetland mitigation?
A. This is not clear at this time. Although these two needs can function together, some permitting agencies may not allow stormwater management basin acreage to be counted as compensatory mitigation for wetlands.
Q. If Route 141 can operate as a two-way road, what is the advantage of making it a one-way road?
A. Although the traffic analysis has not been completed yet, it is generally true that a one-way road will allow the connecting intersection to operate more efficiently by reducing the time required by eliminating one signal phase.
Q. Have you completed intersection level of service?
A. No, it will be completed as soon as traffic count and O/D data is complete in November.
Q. Can the relocated Route 141 connect to US 202 further north, opposite the existing signal at Independence Mall?
A. This may be desirable from a traffic perspective; however, the alignment of 141 would reduce the land available to AstraZeneca for development. In addition, a new roadway crossing of Alopocas Run would impact wetlands in the corridor, requiring more area for compensatory mitigation on the western park parcel.
Q. If Route 141 can not be aligned as described, can the AstraZeneca access point be placed there?
A. Placing the Astra Zeneca across there would also create many of the same negative land use and wetland problems already described.
Q. Are the orange alignments on s smaller roads?
A. The Augustine cut-off options are all two lanes.
Q. What transportation or access problems are you trying to solve with all these 141 options?
A. The 141 options are primarily intended to provide additional access and capacity for the employee trips generated by AstraZeneca development. At the same time, bringing 141 to the south (along Rockland Road) provides a more direct connection to I-95.
Q. Will the future traffic generated by Anderson Consulting and the Friends School be considered?
A. Yes, traffic modeling will consider major traffic generators, both existing and future.
Q. What problem or need are you trying to address with the Augustine cut-off options?
A. This intersection is currently too close to the I-95 ramps and it has been an on-going issue for area residents and DelDOT for some time. At this point, we are trying to separate through and local traffic and reduce or eliminate left turns at US 202.
Comment: Elimination of left turns at US 202 and Augustine cut-off is a bad idea. It will send traffic over other local roads and create impacts on other neighborhoods.
Comment: Broom Street already has enough traffic.
Comment: Move the Augustine cut-off intersection with US 202 north to a point just north of the reservoir. This could be an at-grade crossing with a connection to Weldon Road to the east.
Comment: These local road options conflict with the goals of the park/recreation committee by using up land.
Comment: The US 202 Task Force recommended moving the barn. This option should be included in your plans.
Comment: Connect Rockland and Foulk Roads with an underpass under US 202.
Q. Why is there no option to leave the Augustine cut-off in its current condition?
A. Based on these discussions, we will consider it in the study.
Q. Didn't AstraZeneca previously want to eliminate 141 which divides their north parcel from the triangle?
A. This would have certain advantages for AstraZeneca by giving them more developable land and potentially an exclusive access point at the 141/US 202 intersection.
Comment: Option VI would adversely impact the quality of life for residents on Rockland Road north of 141 because it would direct traffic in that direction.
Q. When will any new options be evaluated?
Q. Why will you place all these options on the web for public consideration if some of them clearly don't work.
A. At this point, we are trying to give the public access to the earliest efforts of the study team. We know some of the options will not survive analysis and testing.
Q. Will signal timing and coordination on US 202 be considered?
A. Yes, US 202 will be subjected to extensive evaluation as part of our ITMS efforts.
Comment: The biggest traffic problem is the back up of traffic on US 202 trying to go west on 141.
Q. What is the objective of all this? What goals you are trying to achieve? It appears you are only trying to reduce impacts on intersections. Be aware that more roads will just generate more traffic.
A. The guiding principals are being used to guide the development of concepts and ultimately a limited number of alternatives. Trade off will have to be made as we balance competing goals and needs.
Comment: The Augustine cut-off has always been a safety issue, not a capacity issue. It is a dangerous intersection.
Q. You stated, "We don't think much of Option I concepts." Why? What criteria are you basing that opinion on?
A. The Option I concepts would create the most new roadway lanes and pavement. The traffic capacity of the system will be controlled by the intersections, not the roadway segments. Based on a very preliminary judgment, Option I may create more lanes than is necessary.
Comment: Residents of Rockland Road do not want it to connect to US 202 directly.
Comment: Weldon Road is currently being used as a cut-through to access AstraZeneca.
Comment: Many options seem to be based on convenient movement of traffic and access. Sometimes travel inconvenience has positive results by slowing traffic and improving the quality of life in residential areas.
Q. With Option V C.2, can we access 141 from relocated Foulk Road?
A. Yes, by traveling on US 202 to the north or south, depending on the option.
Comment: Sending traffic on US 202 south to new 141 will create new traffic problems.
Q. With Option VI, can the park use be expanded by giving AstraZeneca more land in the triangle?
A. Possibly, both directly and indirectly by freeing up land and reducing the need for larger stormwater management areas.
Comment: Option VI would create adverse impacts to other local east-west roads by diverting traffic to them.
Comment: Option VI would be preferred by Deerhurst residents because it reduces traffic and impacts on Murphy Road.
Comment: Please try to assure us that you will not build an interim solution and have to come back with grade-separated intersections at US 202.
The committee concluded its discussions at 6:35 p.m. Gene Abbott reminded everyone that the next meeting is on October 7 at 4:30 until 8:00 p.m.


text:
package org.yoon_technology.gui;

import java.awt.Dimension;
import java.awt.KeyEventDispatcher;
import java.awt.KeyboardFocusManager;
import java.awt.Toolkit;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.KeyEvent;
import java.awt.event.WindowEvent;
import java.awt.event.WindowListener;

import javax.swing.BorderFactory;
import javax.swing.JComponent;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JMenu;
import javax.swing.JMenuBar;
import javax.swing.JMenuItem;
import javax.swing.JOptionPane;

import org.yoon_technology.engine.Engine;
import org.yoon_technology.gpu.Collision;
import org.yoon_technology.gpu.GPU;
import org.yoon_technology.math.Vector3d;

/**
 * Refer to LICENSE
 *
 * @author Jaewan Yun (jay50@pitt.edu)
 */

public class Window extends JFrame {

	private static final long serialVersionUID = 2L;
	public volatile boolean lookingUp;
	public volatile boolean lookingDown;
	public volatile boolean lookingLeft;
	public volatile boolean lookingRight;
	public volatile boolean zoomingIn;
	public volatile boolean zoomingOut;
	private static Window instance = null;

	public static Window getInstance() {
		return instance == null ? instance = new Window() : instance;
	}

	public static Window getInstance(String title) {
		return instance == null ? instance = new Window(title) : instance;
	}

	private Window() {
		this("Demonstration");
	}

	// Funnel to here
	private Window(String title) {
		super(title);

		KeyboardFocusManager manager = KeyboardFocusManager.getCurrentKeyboardFocusManager();
		manager.addKeyEventDispatcher(new MyDispatcher());

		setDefaultCloseOperation(DISPOSE_ON_CLOSE);
		addWindowListener(new WindowListener() {
			@Override
			public void windowClosing(WindowEvent e) {
				GPU.shutdown();
				Collision.shutdown();
			}
			@Override
			public void windowClosed(WindowEvent e) {}
			@Override
			public void windowOpened(WindowEvent e) {}
			@Override
			public void windowIconified(WindowEvent e) {}
			@Override
			public void windowDeiconified(WindowEvent e) {}
			@Override
			public void windowDeactivated(WindowEvent e) {}
			@Override
			public void windowActivated(WindowEvent e) {}
		});
	}

	public static void create() {
		getInstance();
	}

	public static void create(String title) {
		getInstance(title);
	}

	public static void addToWindow(JComponent panel, String layoutType) {
		instance.add(panel, layoutType);
	}

	public static void start() {
		instance.setDefaultCloseOperation(EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
		instance.pack();
		instance.setVisible(true);
		instance.initializeMenuBar();
		centerWindow();
	}

	public static void input(Engine engine, double passedTime) {
		if(instance.lookingUp) {		// up
			engine.getCamera().setOrientation(engine.getCamera().getOrientation().add(new Vector3d(-1.00 * passedTime, 0.0, 0.0)));
		}
		if(instance.lookingDown) {		// down
			engine.getCamera().setOrientation(engine.getCamera().getOrientation().add(new Vector3d(1.00 * passedTime, 0.0, 0.0)));
		}
		if(instance.lookingLeft) {		// left
			engine.getCamera().setOrientation(engine.getCamera().getOrientation().add(new Vector3d(0.0, 1.00 * passedTime, 0.0)));
		}
		if(instance.lookingRight) {		// right
			engine.getCamera().setOrientation(engine.getCamera().getOrientation().add(new Vector3d(0.0, -1.00 * passedTime, 0.0)));
		}
	}

	private static void centerWindow() {
		Dimension dimension = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getScreenSize();
		int x = (int) ((dimension.getWidth() - instance.getWidth()) / 2);
		int y = (int) ((dimension.getHeight() - instance.getHeight()) / 2);
		instance.setLocation(x, y - 15);
	}

	private class MyDispatcher implements KeyEventDispatcher {
		@Override
		public boolean dispatchKeyEvent(KeyEvent e) {
			if (e.getID() == KeyEvent.KEY_PRESSED) {
				if(e.getKeyCode() == KeyEvent.VK_UP) {			// up
					lookingUp = true;
				}
				if(e.getKeyCode() == KeyEvent.VK_DOWN) {		// down
					lookingDown = true;
				}
				if(e.getKeyCode() == KeyEvent.VK_LEFT) {		// left
					lookingLeft = true;
				}
				if(e.getKeyCode() == KeyEvent.VK_RIGHT) {		// right
					lookingRight = true;
				}

			} else if (e.getID() == KeyEvent.KEY_RELEASED) {
				if(e.getKeyCode() == KeyEvent.VK_UP) {			// up
					lookingUp = false;
				}
				if(e.getKeyCode() == KeyEvent.VK_DOWN) {		// down
					lookingDown = false;
				}
				if(e.getKeyCode() == KeyEvent.VK_LEFT) {		// left
					lookingLeft = false;
				}
				if(e.getKeyCode() == KeyEvent.VK_RIGHT) {		// right
					lookingRight = false;
				}

			} else if (e.getID() == KeyEvent.KEY_TYPED) {}

			return false;
		}
	}

	private void initializeMenuBar() {
		// Create menu bar
		JMenuBar menubar = new JMenuBar();

		// Tab "File"
		JMenu file = new JMenu("File");

		// Drop-down item
		JMenuItem fMenuItem_1 = new JMenuItem("Exit", null);
		fMenuItem_1.setMnemonic(KeyEvent.VK_E);
		fMenuItem_1.setToolTipText("Close application");
		fMenuItem_1.addActionListener((ActionEvent event) -> {
			GPU.shutdown();
			System.exit(0);
		});
		file.add(fMenuItem_1);

		// Tab "About"
		JMenu about = new JMenu("About");

		// Drop-down item
		JMenuItem aMenuItem_1 = new JMenuItem("Dedication", null);
		aMenuItem_1.setMnemonic(KeyEvent.VK_D);
		aMenuItem_1.setToolTipText("Family");
		aMenuItem_1.addActionListener((ActionEvent event) -> {
			JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(
					null,
					"For my family.\n\n"
							+ "Jaewan Yun\n"
							+ "JAY50@pitt.edu",
							"Dedication",
							-1);
		});
		about.add(aMenuItem_1);

		// Add to menu bar
		menubar.add(file);
		menubar.add(about);

		// Add menu bar to JFrame
		setJMenuBar(menubar);

		menubar.setOpaque(true);
		menubar.setBorder(BorderFactory.createEmptyBorder());
	}

	//	private void initInteraction() {
	//		final Point previousPoint = new Point();
	//
	//		imageComponent.addMouseMotionListener(new MouseMotionListener() {
	//			@Override
	//			public void mouseDragged(MouseEvent e) {
	//				int dx = previousPoint.x - e.getX();
	//				int dy = previousPoint.y - e.getY();
	//
	//				float wdx = x1 - x0;
	//				float wdy = y1 - y0;
	//
	//				x0 += (dx / 150.0f) * wdx;
	//				x1 += (dx / 150.0f) * wdx;
	//
	//				y0 += (dy / 150.0f) * wdy;
	//				y1 += (dy / 150.0f) * wdy;
	//
	//				previousPoint.setLocation(e.getX(), e.getY());
	//
	//				updateImage();
	//			}
	//
	//			@Override
	//			public void mouseMoved(MouseEvent e) {
	//				previousPoint.setLocation(e.getX(), e.getY());
	//			}
	//		});
	//
	//		imageComponent.addMouseWheelListener(new MouseWheelListener() {
	//			@Override
	//			public void mouseWheelMoved(MouseWheelEvent e) {
	//				float dx = x1 - x0;
	//				float dy = y1 - y0;
	//				float delta = e.getWheelRotation() / 20.0f;
	//				x0 += delta * dx;
	//				x1 -= delta * dx;
	//				y0 += delta * dy;
	//				y1 -= delta * dy;
	//
	//				updateImage();
	//			}
	//		});
	//	}
}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


text:
Joaquim Pla i Dalmau (Girona, 19 d'octubre del 1917 - 8 de desembre del 2005) va ser un editor, escriptor, il·lustrador i compositor molt vinculat a la vida gironina.

Biografia
Era fill de Joaquim Pla i Cargol i Catalina Dalmau i Casademont, i la seva era una família d'escriptors, editors i pedagogs; tant el seu pare com el seu oncle Lluís Gonzaga Pla i Cargol (1889-1961) havien publicat diverses obres de caràcter pedagògic. Va estudiar batxillerat a l'institut de Segon Ensenyament de Girona. Es va llicenciar en Dret a la Universitat de Barcelona l'any 1940. Durant la guerra civil espanyola va ser tinent practicant de Sanitat militar. Va obtenir el títol de Mestre Nacional l'any 1942 i va revalidar el practicant el 1943. La seva família es dedicava al món editorial i llibreter, i en Joaquim va dirigir la Llibreria Dalmau Carles S.A. de Girona (un establiment d'anomenada) des de 1943 a 1949. Va ser a partir d'aquest any que va figurar com a propietari de la Llibreria Pla Dalmau de Girona, establiment que dirigí des de 1949 fins a la seva mort. El 1967 es va fer càrrec de la gerència de l'Editorial Dalmau Carles Pla S.A. fins a jubilar-se'n el 1981.

Va ser tinent d'Alcalde de l'ajuntament de Girona des de 1961 a 1967. El 1962 va rebre la Creu de l'Orde del Mèrit Militar de 2a. classe. També va ser membre de la mesa de la Cambra de Comerç de Girona (1975-1980), fundador de la "Confraria de Jesús Crucificat" (1940) i president la societat "El Baluard", dedicada a l'estudi de la història i fets d'armes de Girona i les seves comarques.

Com a escriptor va ser autor de les obres Ordenació i Catalogació de bibliotecas particulares (Gerona: Dalmau Carles, Pla, 1947), Cervantes y el Quijote: material para el desarrollo de tres conferencias escolares (Girona: Dalmau Carles, Pla, 1947) Estampes de Girona (Girona: Dalmau Carles, Pla, 1949 i 1980), El gran capitán (1952), Gerona (en col·laboració amb el seu germà Josep Maria i Eleuterio Paniagua; Madrid: Publicaciones Españolas, 1964) i col·laborà en moltes edicions escolars de Dalmau Carles Pla S.A. També publicà articles a la revista Destino, al diari Los Sitios, (Diari de Girona), i a moltes publicacions de caràcter militar (Revista de la Guardia Real, Almogávares, Le Bivouac...).

Va ser dibuixant i il·lustrador de llibres i gravador de xil·lografies i ex-libris, i va fer diverses exposicions a la Llibreria Catalònia (durant el franquisme "Casa del Libro") de Barcelona, "Macarrón" de Madrid, "Ferrer" de Girona i "Armengol" d'Olot. Es va especialitzar en xil·lografies per a ex-libris cervantins. Va realitzar nombrosos treballs sobre indumentària i uniformologia històrica per a l'Ajuntament de Girona, Musée de la Cittadelle de Perpinyà, "La Passió" de Girona i diverses revistes militars.

Va practicar la composició musical amb més de vuitanta obres de caràcter coral i música militar per a banda de pífres i tambors.

Aplegà una col·lecció d'ex-libris amb uns 10.000 exemplars i una altra col·lecció de miniatures militars de plom amb unes 40.000 peces.

Va dedicar una bona part de la seva activitat a Dalmau Carles Pla S.A. a la creació de jocs educatius, molts d'ells divulgats per TVE (difosos en programes com Un, dos, tres o Los Payasos de la tele). També va ser l'autor del joc La Reconquista, primer joc de guerra espanyol, que Dalmau Carles Pla publicà el 1970. Quan ja era jubilat, el 1985, la seva editorial, Dalmau Carles Pla, fou també la primera a publicar un joc de rol a Espanya quan publicà una traducció al castellà del joc de rol estatunidenc Dungeons & Dragons.

Els seus germans Josep Maria i Maria Pla i Dalmau també van publicar diversos llibres, com a autors i/o traductors.

Enllaços externs

 Nota biogràfica en ocasió de dedicar una plaça gironina a Joaquim Pla
 Extensa entrevista i article biogràfic de Jordi Vilamitjana a la Revista de Girona 234 (febrer del 2006) p.14-23

Referències

Empresaris catalans del sud contemporanis
Advocats de les comarques gironines contemporanis
Editors catalans del sud contemporanis
Exlibristes catalans
Polítics gironins contemporanis
Regidors de l'Ajuntament de Girona
Empresaris gironins
Advocats gironins
Il·lustradors catalans del sud contemporanis
Gravadors catalans del sud contemporanis
Artistes gironins contemporanis


text:
#include <cstdint>

#pragma once

#if defined(ARM_COMPUTE_ENABLE_SVE)

namespace arm_conv {
namespace depthwise {

void sve_fp32_nhwc_3x3_s1_output2x2_mla_depthfirst_strided_impl(const float *const, const size_t, const size_t, float *const, const size_t, const size_t, const void *, unsigned long, const float, const float);

struct sve_fp32_nhwc_3x3_s1_output2x2_mla_depthfirst_strided
{
  typedef float bias_type;
  typedef float operand_type;
  typedef float return_type;

  typedef void (*kern_type)(const float *const, const size_t, const size_t, float *const, const size_t, const size_t, const void *, unsigned long, const float, const float);

  constexpr static arm_gemm::VLType vl_type = arm_gemm::VLType::SVE;

  constexpr static unsigned int kernel_rows = 3;
  constexpr static unsigned int kernel_cols = 3;

  constexpr static unsigned int stride_rows = 1;
  constexpr static unsigned int stride_cols = 1;

  constexpr static unsigned int output_rows = 2;
  constexpr static unsigned int output_cols = 2;

  constexpr static unsigned int input_rows = 4;
  constexpr static unsigned int input_cols = 4;

  kern_type kernel = sve_fp32_nhwc_3x3_s1_output2x2_mla_depthfirst_strided_impl;

  sve_fp32_nhwc_3x3_s1_output2x2_mla_depthfirst_strided(const CPUInfo *) {}
};

}  // namespace depthwise
}  // namespace arm_conv

#endif  // defined(ARM_COMPUTE_ENABLE_SVE)


text:
Hospital ICUs full in Silicon Valley, Central Valley as California braces for more
Mario Flores views the body of his godfather, Felipe Juarez, at a funeral service held in August in East Los Angeles. Juarez died of COVID-19.
(Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)
By Faith E. Pinho,
Rong-Gong Lin II, Lila Seidman, Luke Money
Dec. 9, 2020 4:30 AM PT
SAN FRANCISCO —
From Silicon Valley to Fresno, hospital intensive care units began reaching capacity Tuesday as California continued to set new records for coronavirus cases that officials fear will get worse in the coming days.
The high transmission rates come after weeks of warnings that hospitals could be overwhelmed as serious coronavirus cases spike to unprecedented levels. Officials warn the ICUs that filled up could be just the beginning.
The situation elsewhere in the state was somewhat better but still critical. Capacity remained at about 10% in Southern California, 24% in the Bay Area, 19% in the Sacramento region but less than 6% in the Central Valley.
Meanwhile, the state hit grim new milestones. California surpassed 20,000 deaths and Los Angeles County surpassed 8,000 deaths. California reported 35,400 new coronavirus cases on Tuesday, according to a Times county-by-county tally, and 219 deaths — both records for a single day. The latest tally means an average of 135 Californians have died each day over the past week — a number not seen since August — and nearly 25,000 people tested positive for the virus daily, a figure more than twice as bad as the peak of the summer surge.
About 1 in 8 of those testing positive are expected to need hospital care in the coming weeks as the virus further replicates in their bodies, causing illnesses like pneumonia and shortness of breath, and in severe situations, respiratory failure and failure of multiple organs.
Officials expect cases and hospitalizations to keep rising as more people who got sick during Thanksgiving show symptoms. They urged residents to follow new stay-at-home rules in effect for 84% of California's residents, which officials said marked the best hope for bending the curve.
"Our message is: As much as you can, stay at home," Dr. Mark Ghaly, California's health and human services secretary, said Tuesday. "We know that it works. We know that we can bring our transmission rates down."
At least three counties in the San Joaquin Valley have reached 0% capacity in their hospitals' intensive care units, making the state's agricultural hub the first area in California to become maxed out.
With a population of almost 1 million people, Fresno County faces a potentially dire situation, overshadowing its smaller neighbors Madera County, to the north, and Kings County, to the south.
"All the things that you're hearing about how impacted our hospitals are, about how dire this situation with our ICUs is: it's absolutely true," said Dr. Rais Vohra, Fresno County Department of Public Health's interim health officer. "That really is the reason that we want everyone to stay home as much as possible, at least for the next few weeks, until we get this surge under control, as we try to work through the hospitalizations that are just coming in so quickly and try to provide the best care."
ICU beds come with specially trained healthcare professionals and high-tech equipment that can mean the difference between life and death for very sick patients. They are especially critical for patients with severe cases of COVID-19, who may require ventilators and round-the-clock care.
Vohra emphasized that the 0% capacity is a "snapshot in time" — the number changes as patients shift to higher or lower levels of care.
With ICU capacity depleted, patients with serious COVID-19 cases may take up open beds in the emergency department, said Fresno County emergency medical services director Dan Daniel J. Lynch. He said the county expects to activate an alternate care site for overflow patients at the Porterville Developmental Center on Monday. The facility, which can hold 123 people, would begin with 20 to 25 patients while waiting for ICU staffing to ramp up.
When asked about staffing shortages at hospitals in the San Joaquin Valley during a Tuesday news conference, Ghaly said it has been getting more difficult to secure additional staffing when counties call for help.
"We're fulfilling what we can. But it is getting harder. We know that staff is our main scarce resource," Ghaly said. "Our requests, both across the state and the nation, are hard to fulfill because of what's happening across America with COVID."
Nonetheless, with the extreme shortage of ICU staff in the San Joaquin Valley, the region is a priority for additional staffing requests, Ghaly said.
The ICU shortage was a devastating blow for California's 10th most populous county, after almost 10 months battling the contagion. Miguel Arias, president of the Fresno City Council, said he and his colleagues have been working furiously to avoid reaching this point. They have fined businesses that violate health orders, distributed protective equipment and sanitizers and asked people to wear masks and maintain social distance.
"Even with all that, we have come to a point where, Monday, we officially reached that epicenter that we've all been trying to avoid," Arias said in an interview Tuesday.
In Santa Clara County, the situation at hospitals was also deteriorating. On Tuesday, Santa Clara County was down to only 31 available intensive care unit beds — just 9.5% of its capacity — to serve Northern California's most populous county, home to nearly 2 million people.
"It is the worst we have seen, and it's continuing to worsen," said Dr. Ahmad Kamal, Santa Clara County director of health preparedness. "Hospitals are nearing capacity, our staffing is stretched thin — not just in our county, but throughout the state and throughout the nation."
Hospitals have started to cancel scheduled surgeries to create more capacity for the sickest patients. By noon Tuesday, there were more than 400 coronavirus-positive patients in Santa Clara County's hospitals, including 12 children.
There were fewer than 100 before election day, Nov. 3.
"We are continuing to see a massive increase," Kamal said. "We have more than doubled our ICU census in the last two weeks. Our system cannot withstand another doubling."
Even more alarming than the hospitalized patient total is how fast ICU beds are filling. "Much more concerning than the low vacancy is the rate at which we are filling. As of today, 8 out of 10 hospitals have fewer than five ICU beds remaining, with some having zero," Kamal said.
Officials may seek to open up beds at DePaul Health Center to treat up to 36 sub-acute patients and ask patients to collect their own specimen samples to free up clinical staff. Santa Clara County is also looking for additional staff from the state or National Guard, although state officials have warned that the supply of extra medical staff is limited.
In alarming shift, Latinos getting coronavirus at more than double rate of whites in L.A. County
Latino residents were nearly three times as likely, and Black residents nearly twice as likely, to be hospitalized with COVID-19 as white residents.
The new stay-at-home order imposed this week requires affected communities to limit most retail capacity to 20% and to close hair salons, nail salons, public outdoor playgrounds, card rooms, museums, zoos, aquariums and wineries. Restaurants are able to offer only takeout or delivery as indoor and outdoor dining are banned.
The new order has prompted a backlash from some merchants, including restaurant owners who say the suspension of outdoor dining in L.A. County in unfair and could destroy their businesses.
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In a decision announced Tuesday, a judge curtailed an outdoor dining ban issued by Los Angeles County officials, even as a state order that superseded the county order will keep the restriction in place past Christmas.
Regardless of the state's order, if L.A. County wants to defend its outdoor dining ban, county public health officials must conduct a risk-benefit analysis to show the measure is warranted, L.A. Superior Court Judge James Chalfant said in his decision.
The state's targeted stay-at-home order, which rolled out across most of California late Sunday, prevents outdoor restaurant dining until the critical shortage of ICU beds improves. The county should not be allowed to keep its own shutdown order indefinitely, the judge added.
The ruling arrives nearly a week after Chalfant ordered the county to provide scientific evidence justifying the ban that went into effect Nov. 25. The initial ban was scheduled to last only three weeks, but the county later made the restrictions indefinite, the judge said.
Lin reported from San Francisco, and Pinho, Seidman and Money from Southern California.
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Faith E. Pinho is a staff writer at the Los Angeles Times.
Rong-Gong Lin II
Rong-Gong Lin II is a metro reporter based in San Francisco who specializes in covering statewide earthquake safety issues and the COVID-19 pandemic. The Bay Area native is a graduate of UC Berkeley and started at the Los Angeles Times in 2004.
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Lila Seidman covers trending and breaking news for the Los Angeles Times.
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Luke Money is a Metro reporter covering breaking news at the Los Angeles Times. He previously was a reporter and assistant city editor for the Daily Pilot, a Times Community News publication in Orange County, and before that wrote for the Santa Clarita Valley Signal. He earned his bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Arizona.


When one tries to Google the phrase "millennials and mortgages," something curious happens. Two different – and in some cases, mutually exclusive sounding – accounts of millennials and their home-buying habits, or lack thereof, emerge.
Millennials are either dragging down the housing market because they can't/won't buy houses, or millennials are both leading the modern mortgage market and simultaneously leading it into the digital age.
It's a lot of apparently contradictory data about a rising generation of consumers that is often discussed, but not nearly as often well-understood. The upshot is that millennials are buying houses – but not at the rates that consumers in the same age cohort have historically bought homes.
"Historically low mortgage rates and increasingly favorable employment conditions should have generated a far greater number of home purchases by young adults, especially in the last five years," said Sam Khater, chief economist at Freddie Mac.
And the fact that they haven't has turned up a lot of data, revealing that the market for millennial real estate consumers remains an extremely uneven and, for many, rather uncertain place.
Born between 1980 and 2000 (roughly), the millennial generation is a sharply age-bifurcated place, despite the common habit of talking about millennials as though they are a fairly homogeneous group when they really aren't.
Younger millennials – those born between 1989 and the year 2000 – are still in their 20s, in some cases still in college and mostly new to the adult world of work and commerce. They aren't buying houses – but even historically speaking, college students and recent grads have never been an incredibly highly active share of the housing market.
Older millennials – born before 1988 – are in their 30s, have spent longer in their careers, and are more likely to have gotten married and started families. PYMNTS, in a study of that older subset of millennials – bridge millennials – found that their spending, saving and general interests are very distinct, both from their younger fellows in the millennial generation and the population at large. Those consumers are buying houses, and are a driving force in some markets. The conventional wisdom of a few years ago – that the millennial generation had evolved beyond homeownership – has not exactly been proven.
"Millennials are shaping the market more than anyone realized. In fact, half of all buyers are under 36 and half of sellers are under 41," said Zillow Chief Marketing Officer Jeremy Wacksman, referring to results from a survey of more than 13,000 homeowners, sellers, buyers and renters that were part of the Zillow Group Report on Consumer Housing Trends.
But while millennials may be driving the real estate markets, data released by the Urban Institute's Housing Finance Policy Center indicates that generationally speaking, they are participating in the homeownership markets less, with an ownership rate running 8 percent to 9 percent behind previous generations.
Why that is the case is broken down over dozens of factors, including income, race, education level, marital status, region, city and parental homeownership status, to name a handful of the most oft-cited data points. In general, the data agrees that when it comes to homeownership, the majority of millennial sellers are white, college-educated, earning a household income over $100,000 and have parents who own homes.
The data across sources also seems to agree that, despite programs like FHA that are designed to lower the initial costs of homeownership, the down payment is the stumbling block that keeps most millennial buyers away.
According to data released last month by Redfin, affording a down payment was the leading concern among millennials looking to purchase a home in the last 12 months, with 50 percent of millennial respondents noting down payment woes.
Redfin's data echoes the Urban Institute's in noting that down payment anxiety is not quite evenly experienced. While 24 percent of millennial respondents reported gift money from family as an expected source of funds for a down payment, that expectation grew to 40 percent among households with income north of $100,000.
Meanwhile, households earning less than $100,000 are more likely to report saving money out of their paycheck toward a mortgage, or taking on a secondary source of employment to raise the funds.
Some of those inequalities, reports have noted, can actually be aided by education, since many millennials hold a somewhat dated belief that a first-time homebuyer needs a full 20 percent to put down on a purchase. In fact, the median average down payment rate on first-time mortgages in the U.S. is 5 percent – and the FHA program allows first-time buyers to go as low as 3.5 percent. That means many millennials may be closer to affording homeownership than they think.
But, as the Urban Institute pointed out, millennial buyers are clustered around urban markets, yet another complicated factor.
"Millennials prefer living in high-cost cities, where housing supply is inelastic," the study notes.
And inelasticity breeds expense. In high demand metro markets, where home prices can average at or about $500,000, saving up for a down payment – even a 3.5 percent down payment – could take a matter of years.
Zillow estimates that at today's rates, it would take someone renting a home in the Seattle metro area nearly three years to save a 3.5 percent down payment on a home – assuming housing prices don't rise at all during that time, which of course they will.
And this is where startups like HomeFundMe come into play.
Run by lender CMG Financial, HomeFundMe gives otherwise qualified (by credit score and income) homebuyers a way to crowdfund down payments and other associated costs from family members and friends. As part of a conventional financing agreement with a bank or mortgage lender, consumers can receive cash gifts toward a down payment, but the circle of eligible gift givers is very limited – and those gifts must be carefully (and sometimes arduously) verified.
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♫♪ TSVI - "Jaguar" ft. Wallwork
By Ross Devlin https://www.tinymixtapes.com//writer/ross+devlin · January 9, 2018	2018-01-09T12:41:44-05:00
You ride the monorail outside of the yellow halo of light pollution, into a heavy-industry district. The light flickers and buzzes just like in a dystopian sci-fi set piece. You wear headphones and the heightened pulse of the internal bass booster blocks out all other sound, so the car stops and the doors open unceremoniously. You descend from the station and walk down the street towards a nondescript basement staircase, passing nobody along the way. Inside you have to pass your belongings through a metal detector, then you're given a towel and a key, and you walk into a locker room and shower and change into tights and race flats. You have come on the recommendation of a friend. The location was a bit of a slog but supposedly the competition is better, and the mixed drinks are stiffer. It can be a fatal error getting too sauced before one of these things, but it never hurts to loosen up.
After using a facial scan (imperfect, it takes, like, three attempts) to link up your account you're given a menu of animated options, complete with floating stats bubble displaying vitals, win history, the original habitat of the competitor: jaguar, elephant, hippopotamus, caiman. You tune your headphones to the venue DJ's channel, which plays jagged drum music at a tempo designed to increase heart rate, mentally prepare patrons for the race. Again, this is a matter of preference—some people get off on the noise. After choosing the remaining place in a jaguar heat—male, 2 years old, 15-3 record—you pay 1,465,099 tokens ($250) and take a number with your time listed on it. You make idle chat with a group of dudes who are watching a race take place from the viewing platform. You can hear a buzzing roar from the gallery, which is a standing-room-only viewing platform full of drunks and gamblers hidden behind a white screen of LEDs that floodlight the track. When it's your turn to race, your number is called, and you walk down into the underground entrance to the track. There are four separated gates, which open onto what looks like an endless, turf pitch (the goal is 100 meters away). You can't see any of your three competitors, but you can see the jaguar, looking detached and uninterested behind your gates, with a handler standing over its cage. A ten-second countdown begins, and you prepare to run once the gate opens. The odds are 1:115 in favor of the jaguar. Winner gets 10,000,000 tokens. The two runners up get their money back and some vouchers for the bar.
A sidewalk slammer cocktail of techno, gqom, and drill beats, the Rambo EP is a globally minded dance exhibition, a talking drum of heavy bass, somewhere between the cathartic exercise of the club and a mechanical investigation in rhythm. These five tracks and a remix by Luru are a natural extension of TSVI's 2016 EP, Sacred Drum . Stream "Jaguar" below, and look out for more of TSVI's work on his new London imprint Nervous Horizon, who have six 12" releases, and a handful of digital EPs under their belts.
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Joan Vilà i Ayats (Riumors, Gerona, 10 de enero de 1886 - Granollers, Barcelona, 1981) fue un músico, intérprete de fiscornio, y compositor.

Biografía
Inició su formación musical con Avi Xaxu y se especializó en el fiscorn con Antoni Agramont, que fue un gran intérprete. En el año 1900 fue admitido en la copla de Tosa de Mar y, mientras estuvo, estudió armonía y composición con el organista de la parroquia de San Vicente.

En el año 1904 se trasladó a vivir a Granollers y tocó de fiscornaire en las coplas Moderna, primerarmente, y Catalònia después. Se le requirió para tocar en la copla Albert Martí, pero estimó más conveniente incorporarse a la fundación de La Principal de Granollers (años 20), donde también tocaron sus hijos Ramón y Miquel. En este periodo también llevó la Orquesta Vilà Ayats.
En los años 40 - principios de los 50 fundó y dirigió la Copla Montseny de Tona. Tocó el fiscornio hasta alrededor e los ochenta años y tuvo de alumno al que sería el futuro intérprete y compositor Joan Camps y Valentí.

Se empezó a dedicar a la composición ya de muy joven para la orquestrina de su padre. A lo largo de su dilatada carrera musical compuso más de dos mil bailables para orquestina, canciones, zarzuelas, sardanas y otra música para copla y orquesta. Su obra más conocida, y que se tilda como himno de Granollers, es el Galope -pasodoble- llamado A la fiesta, para copla pero versionado por banda y orquestina. La ciudad de Granollers tiene dedicada una calle al músico.

Hijos suyos fueron los músicos y compositores Miquel (1909-1974) y Ramón Vilà i Ferrer (1912-2003).

Obras
(selección)
 En la fiesta (1918), galope, grabado por la Copla Sant Jordi en el D.C. Bandada Catalana de Dansaires. Centenario Barcelona: Bandada Catalana de Dansaires, 2008; hay versión para banda de música y adaptación para flabiol solo (partitura). Hay versión vocal con letra de Antònia Abante Vilalta.
 Cataluña, pasodoble.
 España (1932), vals-jota.
 Gitaneta hermosa, pasodoble.
 Juana de Arco, marcha de pasacalle.
 Música de besos, bailable para orquesta, grabado en disco de 78 r.p.m.

 Pascua Triunfante (1975), habanera.
 Toque de fiesta, galope.

Sardanas
 Amor a la patria.
 El encuentro de la ermita.
 Argentonina (1930).
 El vareo (1948), obligada de tenora y fiscorn.
 La buena nueva.
 El camino del cielo (1905), primera sardana.
 Hacia la sierra (1929).
 Despedida de fiesta (1931).
 Doncellas del plan.
 Estallidos del corazón (1931).
 Escuchamos al fiscorn, obligada de fiscorn.
 Hecho por mí (1948).
 Florecida de estrellas.
 Hoja de álbum (1915).
 Joana, obligada de fiscorn.
 Jorn de fiesta.
 Lurdes de Tona (1948).
 Maricel (1909).
 La modisteta (1909).
 Momentos de felicidad.
 Noche dichosa.
 Nido de amores (1906), escrita originalmente para tres grallas, hay versión para copla. Fue grabada por la banda Els Vernets en el D.C. Música de gralla de autores ochocentistas (Barcelona: Generalitat de Catalunya, 2002 ref. DR-002).
 Pastorcilla.
 La puntaire (1931).
 Regreso a la patria.
 Amapola (1906).
 Encuentro de amor.
 Victoriosa, grabada en el D.C. Músicas tossenques por la copla La flama de Farners (Manresa: CK Music, 2006 ref. CK-40010).

 Nuestro debut y Santa Maria del Corcó, dedicadas a la Copla Montañosa del Esquirol, armonizadas por Joan Vilà.

Referencias

Bibliografía
 Josep Mas Diálogo abierto con D. Joan Vilà Ayats, artículo en Vallès 1889 (29.7.72), p. 10-11.
 J.M.Ruera Joan Vilà-Ayats, Plaça Gran, 14 de marzo de 1981.
 Amador Garrell Soto, El pasodoble de Ayats, El 9 Nou, 393 (20 de septiembre de 1993), p. 15.
 Lluís Tintó Granollerenses homenajeados, El 9 Nou 461 (23 de mayo de 1994), p. 29.
 Enric Pey Joan Vilà i Ayats, El Tot Granollers 218 (3 de octubre de 1997), p. 38.

Enlaces externos
 Lista de sardanas.
 Resumen biográfico, del .
 Notas biográficas.

Compositores de sardanas
Músicos del siglo XX
Músicos de Cataluña
Nacidos en Riumors


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Atta Mohammad Noor, Balkh's governor, blamed "enemies of peace and stability" for the incident. The twin attacks in Mazar-i-Sharif and Pathankot came amid renewed efforts to lower tension between India and Pakistan, and restart peace talks with the Taliban in Afghanistan.
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}

// 计算所有item的frame值,主要是为了适配所有item的宽度之和小于屏幕宽的情况
// 这里与后面的 `-addItems` 做了重复的操作,并不是很合理
- (void)calculateItemFrames {
    CGFloat contentWidth = YKMenuMargin;
    for (int i = 0; i < self.items.count; i++) {
        CGFloat itemW = kItemWidth;
        if ([self.delegate respondsToSelector:@selector(menuView:widthForItemAtIndex:)]) {
            itemW = [self.delegate menuView:self widthForItemAtIndex:i];
        }
        CGRect frame = CGRectMake(contentWidth, 0, itemW, self.frame.size.height);
        // 记录frame
        [self.frames addObject:[NSValue valueWithCGRect:frame]];
        contentWidth += itemW;
    }
    contentWidth += YKMenuMargin;
    // 如果总宽度小于屏幕宽,重新计算frame,为item间添加间距
    if (contentWidth < self.frame.size.width) {
        // 计算间距
        CGFloat distance = self.frame.size.width - contentWidth;
        CGFloat gap = distance / (self.items.count + 1);
        for (int i = 0; i < self.frames.count; i++) {
            CGRect frame = [self.frames[i] CGRectValue];
            frame.origin.x += gap * (i+1);
            self.frames[i] = [NSValue valueWithCGRect:frame];
        }
        contentWidth = self.frame.size.width;
    }
    self.scrollView.contentSize = CGSizeMake(contentWidth, self.frame.size.height);
}

// MARK:Progress View
- (void)addProgressView {
    YKProgressView *pView = [[YKProgressView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, self.frame.size.height - YKProgressHeight, self.scrollView.contentSize.width, YKProgressHeight)];
    pView.itemFrames = self.frames;
    pView.color = self.lineColor.CGColor;
    pView.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor];
    self.progressView = pView;
    [self.scrollView addSubview:pView];
}

- (void)addFooldViewHollow:(BOOL)isHollow {
    YKFooldView *fooldView = [[YKFooldView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, self.scrollView.contentSize.width, self.frame.size.height)];
    fooldView.itemFrames = self.frames;
    fooldView.color = self.lineColor.CGColor;
    fooldView.hollow = isHollow;
    fooldView.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor];
    self.progressView = fooldView;
    [self.scrollView insertSubview:fooldView atIndex:0];
}

#pragma mark - Menu item delegate
- (void)didPressedMenuItem:(YKMenuItem *)menuItem {
    if (self.selItem == menuItem) return;

    CGFloat progress = menuItem.tag - kTagGap;
    self.progressView.progress = progress;

    NSInteger currentIndex = self.selItem.tag - kTagGap;
    if ([self.delegate respondsToSelector:@selector(menuView:didSelesctedIndex:currentIndex:)]) {
        [self.delegate menuView:self didSelesctedIndex:menuItem.tag-kTagGap currentIndex:currentIndex];
    }

    menuItem.selected = YES;
    self.selItem.selected = NO;
    self.selItem = menuItem;
    // 让选中的item位于中间
    [self refreshContenOffset];
}

@end


We sell used bikes, which means that we actually want your trade-in. Most dealers don't, which usually means a low trade-in offer.
You can probably get a little more if you sell your bike privately. Craigslist and eBay can be good if you don't mind spending the time writing ads, answering questions and meeting potential "buyers". With us, you just give us the bike and we do the rest. Just bring your bike to any location and let our Team Member know you'd like a trade in quote. Our trade in expert will use historic data, including Bicycle Blue Book, to give you a quote on your trade in. Quotes are good for one week.
Enter your bike information in the Bicycle Blue Book form, and be as accurate and honest as possible.
If you like the trade-in offer, and want to trade it towards a new bike, just bring your old bike to any of our locations for an on the spot trade-in.
The bike must be in good working order, free of structural damage, clean and ready to be resold. If it is not, we will let you know what it needs, and give you the price it would take to get there. This can be deducted from your trade in amount.
We only take bikes as trade-ins towards new bikes or store credits.